Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'tonyrandall'
August 31, 2006
As the summer season winds down over this Labor Day weekend, there's a few more big budget blockbusters vying for your attention. Nicolas Cage travels to a creepy island where a young girl has gone missing in Neil Labute's The Wicker Man. If you've ever seen the kitschy '70s original, you know this seems like an odd horror movie for a remake but maybe provocative Labute will make it more interesting than horrific. Playing a......
Continue Reading "The Cinecultist's Weekly Movie Picks: G rated edition"June 15, 2004
Ask Gothamist recently saw Mean Girls and while it's a good movie on its own, it's easily the best movie we can think of based on a non-fiction book without any sort of actual story arc. Surely the first film on anyone's list of the best movies based on bestselling advice books - a limited genre to be sure - is Woody Allen's comedy Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But......
Continue Reading "Best Movie Based on an Advice Book Ever"September 15, 2003
Has it really been ten years with Conan O'Brien? Gothamist caught Conan's Late Night 10-Year Anniversary last night and we're thankful for sophisticated yet childish humor Conan delivers night after night (and last night's glimpse of Will Ferrell in his leprauchan hot pants - super sexy, yo). Here's a list of Conan highlights from NBC, which has many mentions of the Masturbating Bear (yay!) and recent highlights, like the Claymation episode: 1993 May 3:......
Continue Reading "Late Night With Conan is 10"May 19, 2003
If you were playing opposite Rock Hudson, what could you do but be his sidekick? Six-foot-five, the most glorious-looking man, muscles everywhere — he was dazzling to look at. - Tony Randall on being the "quintessential sidekick," in an L.A. Times interview. We saw Down With Love over the weekend. It's no Pillow Talk. But David Hyde Pierce is truly great - he's interviewed in the same L.A. Times piece with Tony Randall. Gothamist on......
Continue Reading "Sidekick"May 8, 2003
Daily News speaks with Peyton Reed, director of the upcoming Down With Love, a throwback to the "sex" comedies of the late 50s and early 60s, like Pillow Talk, Lover Come Back, and That Touch of Mink. Ewan MacGregor can be charming in his sleep and we certainly rather see more of him than less, but he's not so much the manly man Gothamist imagines from those comedies...Hugh Jackman, the best thing about the anemic......
Continue Reading "Down With Love"
